Quotes by Ray Stannard Baker - Page 1

Nothing lasts-not even pain.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Lasts
Pain
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Adventure is not outside; it is within.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
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Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Flash
Goodness
Does
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Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Dream
Heartbreak
Love
Positive
Looking Back
Regret
Looking
Did
Back
Loved
Too
Often
Say
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Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Sooner Or Later
Sooner
Question
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Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Beef
Bread
Joy
Potatoes
Stew
Baked
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A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Government
Citizens
Class
Irresponsible
Law
Method
Classes
Criminal
Good Citizens
Mob
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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Volume
Adventures
Grasped
Interests
Large
Span
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When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Science
Country
Vacuums
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We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Cynical
Hopeless
Our World
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And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Book
Deeper
Giving
Inner Life
Insight
Struggle
Aspirations
Folk
Inner
Souls
Struggles
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But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Courage
Bars
Consciousness
Steel
Stronger
Backed
Deal
Good Deal
Mob
Takes
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Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Men
Black And White
Country
Great Men
Honored
Future Men Great
Washington
Measured
Standard
Regarded
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One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Car
Crow
Jim Crow
Race
Separation
Street
Jim
Trains
Races
Railroad
Regulations
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There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Long Ago
Pain
Serenity
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It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Men
Great Idea
Ideas
Intense
Peculiar
Together
Strike
Vital
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The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Cities
City Streets
Failing
Filthy
Neglected
Streets
Treasury
Alley
Contractors
Draw
However
Payments
Regular
Ward
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A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Boston
Guests
Hotel
Restaurants
Years
Years Ago
Refused
Restaurant
Serve
Several
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The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Discrimination
Doe
Overlooked
Reality
Slighted
Informed
Openly
Otherwise
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I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Christmas
Smile
Xmas
Healing
Holiday
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Most of us have collections of sayings we live by. . . . Whenever words fly up at me from the printed page as I read, I intercept them instantly, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Knowing
Mind
Pages
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The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Men
Atlanta
Conductor
White Man
Seat
Farther
Section
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At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Men
Divergent
Mills
People
Together
Unions
Violence
Aside
Belonged
Comparatively
Craft
Predicted
Skilled
Strike
Whom
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In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Encouragement
Believe
Giving
Thinking
Good Great Believe
Believed
Ills
In The Beginning
Partisan
Settled
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Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . . . . I have been thinking much about pain. How could I help it? . . . . Sooner or later, regardless of the wit of man, we have pain to face; a reality; a final inescapable, immutable fact of life. What poor souls, if we have then no philosophy to face it with! This pain will not last; it never has lasted. I'll think about what I am going to write tomorrow-not about me, not about my body.
Ray Stannard Baker / Journalist
Life
Pain
Philosophy
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